"The most courageous act is still to think for yourself. Aloud."

With so many elections coming up worldwide it's probably a good time to remind everyone that tumblr once got infested with agents trying to convince everyone not to vote, or not to vote left because the candidates weren't morally pure enough.

Also a reminder that they were better at tumblr than most of us, comrade interloper was great at memeing. Like, the talent!

Anyway don't fall for it. There is no morally pure option.

I was reading a book from 1945, where the writer describes being a 16-year old girl in 1930 Germany, contemplating what to vote if she were allowed but finding no morally pure option.

The Nazis, in 1933, only needed less than 44% of the vote to end democracy in Germany and start working towards a war that led to the most horrific genocide in memory.

It is normal, then, for young people everywhere, to look for a morally pure option. It's not new, it's simply the unwillingness to contribute towards evil and that is good and noble and beautiful.

But it can be weaponised.

If you do not vote for the greatest possible good...

That can be taken advantage of by the greatest possible evil. Because it gives them space.

Because those 44% was not, and I'm certain, 44% of the entire population elligible for voting.

It was 44% of the people willing to vote at all.

Some, I'm certain, didn't vote for moral reasons. Would that they had.

Hitler might have never become head of the German government.

Vote for the greatest good on offer, to help drown out the greatest evil.

"There is no morally pure option" --- i respectfully but emphatically disagree.

The morally pure option is to do whatever you can to prevent the morally abominable from achieving power.

If you prevent the raging bigot from being elected by voting instead for the candidate who's policies aren't perfect, but who is not actively trying to destroy entire sections of society, well, that's the morally pure option.

There are no morally pure candidates, sure. Theres not a single morally pure human being in the whole entire world. But the morally pure option is to vote for the least bad candidate, so that you prevent the election of literal evil.

I mean there have probably been a lot of other good ones but I don't catch them all.

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Well done, Michigan. Workers all over the country deserve better than Right To Work corporate bullshit.

"To get leverage on him, I need to know the scope of his business, inside-out. There are two ways to learn this. The first is by following his driver, tracking his schedule. Second, his accountant, Henrik Van Poel. If I get access to Pekka's books, it'll tell me everything I need to know. So, we need to get into that building. It's where his accountant works. Although, there's no way of knowing which office. That's the mission." @socdaily | NO MOURNERS EVENT day one → favorite crows moment

This is insane

I don't think people truly understand the gravity of Rafah being bombed.

There is nowhere left to go.

The lowest cost is $5,000 USD to flee to Egypt. There has been people paying over $10,000 USD.

That is the only option

Pay or die.

Rafah was the only place in Palestine promised not to be bombed. That promise is broken.

1.5 million people have nowhere to go!

Reminder, if possible, please donate to the PCRF, ANERA, Islamic Relief, Palestine Red Crescent Society, Medical Aid for Palestinians, Defense for Children International - Palestine, Doctors Without Borders, and all other trusted organizations.

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I think all Democrats are exhausted.

maybe he'll realise I'm the girl of his dreams...

Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries is so underrated. The MC is a ridiculously fashionable lady detective in 1920’s Australia. Her oldest and dearest friend is a lesbian doctor who dresses like Katherine Hepburn, she finds a girl stealing shit on a train platform and is like “well guess she’s mine now”, her hired help is two communists, a gun enthusiast butler, and a little Catholic girl afraid of telephones. She speaks like 4 languages for some reason? She’s a domestic abuse survivor. She funds a lady race car driving club. She used her diaphragm to catch a deadly spider. She can fly planes. She’s kinky as hell. She used to be an army nurse. Just character of all time.

this should be the blurb on imdb

Lundy Bancroft: supporting mothers’ and children’s healing after domestic violence

My favourite thing about the Bad Wolf storyline is that the creation of Bad Wolf itself wasn’t even the biggest proof of love from Rose in that moment and that says a lot because looking into the Heart of the TARDIS isn’t nothing.

But the biggest proof (in that moment) that Rose loved the Doctor was this:

She saw everything.

The worst he ever had been, the worst he ever could become.

She saw the timeline were he left her in Pete’s world since she named it Bad Wolf after Bad Wolf bay.

(Which makes me think that she might have had to hand pick that timeline in order to save him)

She saw him break her heart, she saw him kill, die and hate everything and everyone because he couldn’t face hating himself.

She saw all of him. (The very thing he thought would make her leave him)

And yet she still came back to save him.